happy-go-lucky 
happy-go-lucky (hap'i-go-luk'i), a. Easy- 
going; taking things as they come, or hap- 
hazard. 
The first thing was to make Carter think and talk, which 
he did in the hai>py-rjii-lucky way of his class, uttering nine 
mighty simple remarks, and then a bit of superlative wis- 
dom, or something that sounded like it. 
C. Reade, Never too Late to Mend, xv. 
happy-go-lucky (hap'i-go-luk'i), adv. In any 
way one pleases; just as may happen; every 
man for himself. 
The Eed-coats cried, "Shall we fall on in order, or hap- 
py-go-lucky?" The Major-General said, "In the name of 
God ! at it, happy-go-lucky ! " 
Sir T. Morgan's Progress (Arber's Eng. GarnerX I v - 6*1. 
If I get into Mrs. Martha's quarters, you have a hundred 
more ; if into the widow's fifty ; happy-go-lucky. 
Wycherley, Love in a Wood, i. 1. 
hap-warm (hap'warm), a. and . [< hap 2 + 
warm.} I. a. Covering so as to warm. [Scotch.] 
Thinking it best to be o'erlald in 
A suit o' sonsy hap-warm plaidin. 
Tarras, Poems, p. 22. 
II. n. Any wrapping to protect from cold. 
[Scotch.] 
Whan fock [folk], the nipping cauld to bang, 
Their winter hapwarms wear. 
Fergusson, Hallow-Fair. 
haquet, An abbreviated form of haquebut. 
haquebutt, A form of hackbut. 
haquetont, . A form of acton. 
har 1 (har), . [Early mod. E. also harre; < ME. 
har, harre, herre, < AS. hear, heorr, hior, also 
heorra (in pi. heorran), a hinge, a cardinal 
point, = MD. herre, harre, D. har, her = Icel. 
hjarri, a hinge.] A hinge. [Prov. Eng.] 
The herres, ether heenges, of the doris . . . weren of gold. 
WycHf, 3 [1] Ki. viL 60 (Purv.). 
Out Of hart, off the hinges ; out of gear ; out of order. 
The londe, the see, the firmament, 
They nxeu also juggement 
A3en the man, and make him werre. 
Therwhile himself e stante oute of herre. Oower. 
All is out of harre. Stelton, Magnyflcence, 1. 921. 
har 2 t, a. An early Middle English form of 
hoar. 
har 3 (har), . An obsolete or dialectal form of 
harageoust, harrageoust, a. [ME., appar. of 
OF. origin, but no OF. form appears. Cf. OF. 
harache, liarace, pursuit; cf. also harry. ] Bold; 
violent. 
The hethene harageous kynge appone the hethe lyggez, 
And of his hertly hurte helyde he never ! 
Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.X 1. 1834. 
hara-kiri (har'a-kir'e), n. [Jap., < hara, belly, 
+ kiri, cutting, cut. 'Erroneously written hari- 
kari, harri-karri, in riming conformation.] 1. 
Suicide by disembpwelment, formerly practised 
in Japan by daimios and members of the mili- 
tary class when unwilling to survive some per- 
sonal or family disgrace, or in order to avoid 
the headsman's sword after having received 
sentence of death. In the latter case the act was 
performed in the presence of witnesses, and was ac- 
companied by elaborate formalities. At the moment 
the suicide ripped open his abdomen with his dirk his 
head was struck off by the sword of his second, who was 
usually a kinsman or an intimate friend. 
According to one authority, capital punishment may be 
divided into two kinds beheading and strangulation. 
The ceremony of hara-kiri was added afterwards in the 
case of persons belonging to the military class being con- 
demned to death. This was first instituted in the days 
of the Ashikaga dynasty (1336-1568 A. DA 
A. B. Mitford, Old Japan, p. 330. 
2. Hence, suicide; self-destruction. 
On July 8 the Criminal Law Amendment (Ireland) Bill 
was passed in a House of Commons in which there was 
not a single Liberal or Irishman, and the method of ob- 
struction by abstention, or the policy of political hari- 
kari, was inaugurated. Westminster Rev., CXXVI1I. 666. 
Haralda (ha-ral'da), n. Same as Harelda. 
haram, . Same as harem. 
harangue (ha-rang'), n. [< OF. harangue, F. 
harangue = Pr. arengua = Sp. Pg. arenga = It. 
aringa, arringa (ML. harenga), a public ad- 
dress, a harangue ; cf . It. aringo, arringo, arena, 
lists, combat, pulpit, chair, harangue (the sense 
'arena,' hence a public platform, etc., being 
nearest the orig. ) ; < OHG. hring, MHG. rinc, a 
ring, a ring of people, an arena, circus, lists, G. 
ring = OS. hring = AS. hring, E. ring 1 : see ring. 
The syllable ha-, a-, is due to the OHG. h-. Cf. 
rank 2 , range, arrange, from the same source.] 
A set oration ; a public address ; a formal, vehe- 
ment, or passionate address ; also, any formal 
or pompous speech ; a declamation; a tirade. 
Anon 
Gray-headed men and grave, with warriours mix'd, 
Assemble, and harangues are heard. 
Milton, P. L., xi. 663. 
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Then his bhaird, or poet : then his bladier, or orator, to 
make harangues to the great folks whom he visits. 
*>-tt, VVaverley, xvi. 
The even tenor of the session of Parliament was ruffled 
only by an occasional harangue from Lord Egmont on the 
army estimates. Macaulay, Horace Walpole. 
= Syn. Address, Oration, etc. See speech. 
harangue(ha-rang'), r; pret.andpp./ragrerf, 
ppr. haranguing. [< F. haranguer = Pr. arengar 
= Sp. Pg.arengar = It. aringare, arriiigare, make 
a harangue; from the noun.] I. trans. To ad- 
dress in a harangue; make a speech to: as, 
the general harangued the troops. 
The worm, aware of his intent, 
Harangu'd him thus, right eloquent. 
Cowper, Nightingale and Glow-worm. 
General Jackson, upon being harangued in Latin, found 
himself in a position of immense perplexity. 
Josiah Quincy, Figures of the Past, p. 364. 
II. intrans. To make a formal address or 
speech ; deliver a harangue ; declaim. 
A Spaniard harangued in his native tongue at the pil- 
lar of reproach, and a French sermon was preached at the 
place where Christ was nailed to the cross. 
Pocoeke, Description of the East, II. L 18. 
For he at any time would hang 
For th' opportunity t' harangue. 
S. Butler, Hudibras, III. ii. 438. 
The talent of haranguing is, of all others, most insup- 
portable. Swift, Conversation. 
haranguer (ha-rang'er), n. One who harangues 
or isfond of haranguing; a noisy declaimer. 
With them join'd all th' haranyuers of the throng, 
That thought to get preferment by the tongue. 
Dryden, Aba. and Achit, i. 609. 
We are not to think every clamorous haranguer, or 
every splenetic repiner against a court, is therefore a pa- 
triot Bp. Berkeley, Maxims, $ 23. 
hara-nut (ha'ra-nut), 11. The drupe of an In- 
dian plant, TerminaliA citrina. Also called 
citrine or Indian myrobalan. 
harast, harrast, [< ME. haras, hares, harace, 
< OF. haras, hara:, F. haras (ML. haracium), a 
stud, < L. hara, a pen, coop, sty.] 1. A stud 
of horses. 
A harrai of horses. Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 80. 
2. A place or establishment for breeding 
horses ; a stud-farm ; a stable. 
3ondys is a nous of haras that stand by the wey, 
Among the bestys herboryd ye be. 
Coventry Mysteries, p. 147. 
Than lopen about hem the Lombars, 
As wicked coltes out of haras. 
Oy of WarwOce, p. 205. (Halliwell.) 
From this haras have come some of the best French-bred 
horses that have been seen in recent years. 
Philadelphia Times, May 17, 1886. 
harass (har'as), v. t. [Formerly also luirras, 
harrass; < OF. harasser, tire out, vex. Origin 
uncertain ; cf. OF. harier, harry : see harry.} 
1. To fatigue or tire out, as with annoying 
labor, care, importunity, enforced watchful- 
ness, misfortune, etc.; distress by perplexity; 
wear out, as with toil. 
Being unwilling to refuse any public service, though 
my men were already very much harrasied, I marched 
thither. Ludlow, Memoirs, I. 102. 
Nature, oppress'd and harast'd out with care, 
Sinks down to rest Addieon, Cato, v. 1. 
To go on at that rate would harrass a regiment all to 
pieces. Sterne, Tristram Shandy, ii. 17. 
Vext with lawyers and harass'd with debt 
Tennyson, Maud, xix. 3. 
2. Milit.: (a) To annoy by repeated attacks ; 
keep constantly on the defensive. 
They had before been miserably harassed by the inroads 
of the Philistines. Stillingjleet, Sermons, II. iv. 
(6) To lay waste or desolate ; raid. 3. To rub 
or scrape. [A trade use.] 
To soften the skins after dyeing, they are harassed by a 
knife, the point of which is curved upwards. 
Vre, Diet, III. 93. 
=8yn. Distress, etc. (see afflict); to jade, disturb, ex- 
haust* fag. See trouble. 
harass (har'as), n. [< harass, .] Harassment. 
[Bare.] 
Meanwhile the men of Judah, to prevent 
The harass of their land, beset me round. 
Milton, 8. A., 1. 267. 
Cares and the harass of daily life have sharpened the 
round cheek. Robert Ord's Atonement, p. 58. 
harasser (har'as-er), n. One who harasses or 
teases ; a spoiler. 
Unnumbered harasxers 
Of the Fleet and Scots 
There to flee made were. 
Athelstan's Victory (Ellis s Early Eng. Poets, I. 23). 
harassment (har'as-ment), M. [< harass + 
-ment.~\ The act of harassing, or the state of 
being harassed; vexation; that which harasses 
or vexes. 
harbor 
I have known little else fhan privation, disappointment, 
u n kindness, and harassment. 
L. E. Landon, in Blanchard, I. 61. 
Little haratinments ... do occasionally molest the most 
fortunate. Bulwer, Pelham, Ixiii. 
A soul that has come, from excessive harassment*, in- 
trospections, self-analysis, into that morbid state of half- 
sceptical despondency. H. B. Stowe, Oldtown, p. 466. 
harateen, See harrateen. 
harawdt, . An obsolete form of herald. 
harbegiert, harbeshert, . See harbinger. 
harbergaget, '< See harborage. 
harberoust, a. See harborous. Tyndale. 
harbin, harbine (har'bin), . A young coal- 
fish. [Local, Eng.] 
harbinger (har'bin-jer), n. [Early mod. E. also 
harbenger (the n inserted as in passenger, mes- 
senger, porringer, etc.), earlier harbegier, har- 
besher (in which an orig. r has been lost from 
the second syllable), < (a) ME. lierbergeour, 
herberjour, herbarjour, etc., < OF. herbergeor, 
herbergeour, albergeur (= Sp. Pg. albergador = 
It. albergatore), one who provides or secures 
lodging or harborage ; (b) ME. also herberger, 
herborgere,<.OF. herbegier, in same sense; < lier- 
bergier, harbor, lodge : see harborough, harbor 1 , 
p.] If. One who provides or secures lodging 
for another; specifically, a royal officer who 
rode a day's journey in advance of the court 
when traveling, to provide lodgings and other 
accommodations. 
Thane come the herbarjours, harageous knyghtez, 
The hale batelles one hye harrawnte ther-aftyre. 
Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2448. 
There was a harbinger who had lodged a gentleman in a 
very ill room. Bacon, Apothegms. 
Bishop Ken's house . . . was marked by the harbinger 
for the use of Mrs. Eleanor Gwyn. Hawkins, Bp. Ken. 
2. One who or that which precedes and gives 
notice of the coming of some other person or 
thing ; a forerunner ; a precursor. 
Another, past all hope, doth pre-auerr 
The birth of lohn, Christ's holy Harbentter. 
Sylvester, it. of Du Bartas's Weeks, L 1. 
I'll be myself the harbinger, and make Joyful 
The hearing of my wife with your approach. 
Shak., Macbeth, i. 4. 
Except there be great familiarity, hee which will salute 
a friend must send a letter before for his harbenger, to sig- 
nifle Us affection towards him. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 437. 
Luxurious ease is the surest harbinger of pain. 
De Quincey, 1'hilos. of Rom. Hist. 
harbinger (har'bin-jer), v. t. [< harbinger, n.] 
To precede ; act as a harbinger to ; serve as 
an omen or indication of ; presage ; announce. 
One majority often harbingers another. 
Remarks on the State of Parties (1809), p. 24. 
To that chamber came the fair Queen soon, 
Well harbingered by flutes. 
William Morns, Earthly Paradise, III. 108. 
harbinger-of-spring (har'bin -jer-ov-spring' ), 
n. A small North American umbelliferous 
herb, Eriqenia bulbosa, which flowers in March 
in the latitude of Washington. It is produced from 
binger-of-spring (Krigfnia bnlbosa}. a, flower ; It, fruit. 
a deep globular tuber, larger than a pea, at the end of a 
slender root, and has twice-ternately divided leaves and 
small white flowers. It is the only species of the genus, 
and ranges from New York to Virginia and from Wiscon- 
sin to Kentucky. 
harbor 1 , harbour 1 (har'bor), . [The spelling 
harbour conforms to the analogy of labour, etc.; 
as in harbour^ = arbour, arbor?, it is without 
